Walk Japan launches seven new tours

The new tours are:

Michinoku Coastal Trail & Self-Guided Michinoku Coastal Trail Wayfarer, North Honshu

These tours follow the best sections of the 637-mile Michinoku Shiokaze Coastal Trail in Japan’s Tohoku region. Starting in Hachinohe and ending in Kesennuma, travellers follow the spectacular Sanriku Coast aside the Pacific Ocean.

Guided option 9 days, 8 nights; starting at £2,660. Self-guided option 10 days, 9 nights; starting at £1,600.

Shio-no-Michi: The Salt Road, Central Honshu

A tour exploring an ancient trade route from Matsumoto, through remote mountain villages before reaching the shores of the Sea of Japan. This tour traverses rural countryside of rice paddies, beech forests and clear streams set against a backdrop of snow-capped mountains.

9 days, 8 nights; starting at £2,420.

Self-Guided Tokaido Wayfarer, Central Honshu

A walking and gastronomic adventure along the central section of the Tokaido, Japan’s greatest thoroughfare which connected Kyoto to Edo, now modern-day Tokyo. The varied scenery of rural landscapes, picturesque coastal stretches and towns is emblematic of Japan today and yesteryear.

6 days, 5 nights; starting at £970.

Onsen Gastronomy: Gifu, Central Honshu

A tour visiting northern Gifu Prefecture in the geographic centre of Japan; a largely remote area of mountain ranges, deep valleys, high plateaus, remote villages and period towns. Guests can also make the most of the region’s sake, which are considered some of the best in Japan. 

5 days, 4 nights; starting at £2,015.

Self-Guided Kunisaki Wayfarer, Kyushu

A tour following in the footsteps of monks on the little-known and less-visited Kunisaki Peninsula from elegant temple to temple along rugged forest trails and quiet country lanes in verdant countryside.

6 days, 5 nights; starting at £1,050.

Onsen Gastronomy: Oita & Kumamoto, Kyushu

A tour starting in Beppu, the onsen hot spring capital of Japan, before exploring Oita and the Kumamoto Prefectures in northern Kyushu, a region renowned for its varied, rural landscapes, the high quality of its food, and for its abundance of onsen. 

5 days, 4 nights; starting at £1,855.

Rates per person, based on double occupancy.